They Found Caren's Luggage!!!!!

It is now midday on the last day of our bicycle trip. We've check out of our hotel in Luang Prabang and are awaiting our flight back to Bangkok for our final dinner with the trip group.

A few minutes ago we got a phone call. Caren's luggage just showed up at the Chiang Mai airport in Thailand. Hooray!!! We have no idea where it has been for the past eight days, but it should be in our hotel room in Bangkok by the time we arrive this evening.

Caren will now have a lot of clean clothes for our four days in Cambodia. Just when she was getting used to living like a Thai in flip flops, T-shirts, Thai fisherman's pants, and sarong skirts.

As we said kiddingly to our guides, they are now going to get a tip. Until now, we told them "no luggage, no tip." Seriously, they were great guides and we will miss seeing them. We definitely want to take another biking trip with them to India next November - a fun-loving 30-something American from Connecticut (Caren's thinks he does a great imitation of Borat) and a 30-something Canadian Jewish woman who lives in Poland and speaks fluent, Thai, Lao, and Japanese (go figure).

On to Bangkok. More shopping and another blog update later.